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Book SynopsisOffers a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive overview of the ways religion has shaped the idea of the American West and how the region has influenced broader religious and racial categories.
Trade ReviewReligion and the American West brings together the best scholarship on the subject with a dizzying array of material evidence in order to tell the story of a multicultural, multidimensional American West--reflecting the American West not as it is imagined, but as it was."—Brandi Denison, author of
Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009Table of Contents
- Foreword
- John Vanausdall
- Introduction
- Jessica Lauren Nelson
- Chapter One. Sacred Spaces: Religion, Land, and Identity in the Trans-Appalachian West (1800-1840)
- Jessica Lauren Nelson
- Chapter Two. Religion and Empire: Mythic Trails, Stolen Homelands, and Forced Migration in the Antebellum West (1840-1860)
- Danae Jacobson
- Chapter Three. Frontier Violence: Making Americans and the Myth of the West (1860-1890)
- Konden Smith Hansen
- Chapter Four. Religion Here and Now
- Daisy Vargas
- Conclusion. A Visual Epigraph
- Jessica Lauren Nelson
- Bibliography
- Contributors
